The values of chilled water supply temperatures in chillers indicate the load distributions as the chilled water return temperatures in all chillers are the same in a decoupled air-conditioning system. This study employs the Hopfield neural network (HNN) to determine the chilled water supply...

A five-year, NT$8.09 billion project to turn Penghu, Taiwan, into a world-class low-carbon island was formally launched in 2011. The project is a major milestone in Taiwan’s development of renewable energy. The initiative, which will install large onshore wind power generators, is predicted to...

The most important measure in addressing the forest ownership/land use rights market are the creation of forest land trade centers (FTC), which are established to facilitate the transfer of forest lands in China. The aim of this paper is to analyze the implementation, bottleneck, opportunity,...

This investigation attempts to solve the optimal chiller loading (OCL) problem by utilizing simulated annealing (SA). SA eliminates the limitation that the Lagrangian method cannot solve OCL because the kW-PLR curves simultaneously include convex functions and non-convex functions. This study...

This study employs gradient method (GM) to solve economic dispatch of chiller plant (EDCP) problem. GM overcomes the flaw that with the Lagrangian multiplier (LM) method the system may not converge at low demand. In this study, the load balance constraint and the operating limit constraints of...